Remedy

Floating Lights.

"Can you please tell me more about her?" she asks.

"I'd be glad to but, as the saying goes, I have so much to say about her, but so little time... From what I know, she was such a stunning and breathtaking person," I say.

"Wow. I remember when she hugged me! She always kept everyone really close to her," she responds.

"Yeah... She was definitely one of a kind; someone who knew how to reach out to people with her love, and now she's gone, vanished, disappeared. Every single synonym that matches a person that no longer is here on Earth," I sighed. 

I gave her a small smile as I observed how she took my words and weighed them on her shoulders, waiting for her to give me some kind of comfort that would pick up the pieces of a broken glass.

"Well, everyone's unique. We won't find anyone exactly like her, that's just the way life is, and the amazing part of being an individual being. However, we can learn from her and leave a legacy somehow...Why don't you use a skill of yours to help reach her spirit upwards?" In return to my perplexed look, she waited for my response. 

"That's the only way I can remember her, to include her in my works, my music. I want the world to remember her.." I sighed again.

"Oh, cool. Well, I think she'll love it!"

"She will. She is an number one artsy fan for sure.. I have been wanting to do this for years. I just have to make sure there's progress.."I close my eyes and the flashes of her art-work play in my mind like shuffling pictures. 

"Let her become the songs, the melody. Close your eyes and imagine her becoming each instrument that is included in your album." Her hand made small gestures upwards as she nodded. "Also envision how she smiled and laughed, and somehow make your music do the same. Is she calm and steady? Get it smooth. Walks gracefully? Add some joyous tunes." She graciously reached down her pockets and then stopped, lost in thought. "Hey, come follow me real quick. I have to show you something!"

"Aw, okay. Give me a moment." I hold my guitar with no clue where she is taking me. I follow her as we head out to the door. "Uh, actually, the truth is, I already started. I'm halfway done with this album, but I like the idea, for sure!"I did not even notice as she took my hand and let me outside, with a box full of floating lights. We caught the lake, and ran right near the edge. The sun was nearly setting down, being drowned by the water. I observed the orange glimmering glow among the lake, and the reflection of our rippling faces with hope. 

"Well, great.. Set her free through these and blink again; for you are standing near the edge of the lake, watching the floating lights in the air, and it's her."

"Aww, how wonderful. Thank you for these, but before this moment..." 

For a few seconds, I was frozen. I didn't expect to just walk out of this room right after this conversation to see such beauty inside one box. Tiny, floating lights of different colors, red, orange, green, yellow, and blue. I couldn't believe she was gone, I knew that we would have gotten the opportunity to be closer..   Right after her, there was heartbreak after heartbreak. Hell, I wonder if I'll ever find anyone like her, but never. She is her, and I am me. However, if it wasn't for her, what story would I be telling? If it wasn't for her, I'd never would have had the idea for this album..She inspired me, and now I will be able to change many lives with her presence, well I mean I changed one. Could this mean I could change many others?

I raise my eyebrow at her and quickly strum a song on my guitar, letting it go from accelerando to decrescendo. The minor and major chords of tragic love flowing out of this instrument. Tragic, as tragic as can be. After I sing the last words to the song, I get up, and pick up a floating light. It is filled with harsh and beautiful truths, so I give it to her first. Maybe she'll handle it better; Instead, she gives it back to me. "No, you put so much emotion and effort to this song for her, I think this will give it a good ending if you do it first." 

"Within a few weeks or so, we will find it gone. Which means your music is really helping her spirit reach upwards," she said with certainty as she placed each light in the air.

"What? How will she know?"My mouth opens in shock.

"How can a soul not notice a floating light? She'll see, though she is far, she'll come and stop by. Believe me."

I take a deep breath and close my eyes, letting the light go as far as it wanted to. My hand hesitates at first, but a sudden love and joy overflows me, and I let it go. "Rest in peace princess, you will be dearly missed and always in my heart. I love you so much."